Trump’s niece Mary says POTUS bears blame for Charlie Kirk's killing: 'No person is more responsible'

WASHINGTON, DC: President Donald Trump's niece, Mary L Trump, said the POTUS bears the blame for conservative commentator Charlie Kirk's killing and added that the US has been "divided against itself" because of the rhetoric coming from the president.

The 31-year-old MAGA commentator was shot during a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on Wednesday, September 10, and died after he was taken to a hospital.

Mary L Trump says 'No person is more responsible' than POTUS for political violence

President Donald Trump called Charlie Kirk a "martyr" and said the "radical left" was spreading rhetoric "directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today" during an Oval Office address.

"My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and other political violence," the POTUS said.

Following this, Mary L Trump said her uncle "should start with himself." She wrote in her 'The Good in Us' Substack on Thursday, September 11, "Political violence and the rhetoric that drives it are almost entirely on the side of the Republican Party, and no person is more responsible for it than Donald Trump."

"We have arrived here in large part because this country has been purposefully and maliciously divided against itself because of the rhetoric coming from Donald Trump and the Republican Party," Mary added. Meanwhile, White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson told the Daily Beast, "These are disgusting comments."

On September 10, Trump said, "Tonight, I ask all Americans to commit themselves to the American values for which Charlie Kirk lived and died. The values of free speech, citizenship, the rule of law, and the patriotic devotion and love of God. Charlie was the best of America, and the monster who attacked him was attacking our whole country. An assassin tried to silence him with a bullet, but he failed because together we will ensure that his voice, his message and his legacy will live on for countless generations to come."

Mary, a longtime critic of the POTUS, also wrote that Trump "almost single-handedly created the conditions in which his grievance, his vengeance, and his cruelty extend to anybody that supports him."

She further claimed, "The right does not condemn political violence, at least when it’s wielded against their perceived political enemies. In fact, they celebrate it."

Charlie Kirk shooting witnesses raise alarm over weak security at Utah college event

Charlie Kirk’s fatal shooting during a campus event in Utah ignited fresh scrutiny over the security arrangements, as several attendees described the measures as inadequate.

Tyler McGettigan, one attendee, told NBC News that he had printed a ticket but was never asked to present it.

"No one checked the barcode or the QR code," he said. "There was no checkpoint to get in. It was literally, anyone could walk in if they wanted," McGettigan added.

Meanwhile, another witness, Justin Hickens, said there were no metal detectors or bag checks outside the courtyard.

 "There were no checkpoints, nothing, to get in here," Hickens recalled.

Afton Miller, a Turning Point USA member, echoed those concerns and said she and a friend simply "walked in" and were told by what appeared to be a school official to "go find a seat, first-come, first-served."